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  • J.M. Synge, Travelling Ireland

    Essays 1898-1908

    by JM Synge ...
    Synge's topographical essays appear here in their original newspaper and periodical publication form, taken from the Manchester Guardian, The Gael and The Shanachie, complete with illustrations, mostly by Jack B. Yeats. A substantial essay-introduction by Nicholas Grene places his work in its historical context (1898-1908) and evokes the man and his milieu. Synge's writings explore social, ... Read more

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  • J.M. Synge, Travelling Ireland

    Essays 1898-1908

    by JM Synge ...
    Synge's topographical essays appear here in their original newspaper and periodical publication form, taken from the Manchester Guardian, The Gael and The Shanachie, complete with illustrations, mostly by Jack B. Yeats. A substantial essay-introduction by Nicholas Grene places his work in its historical context (1898-1908) and evokes the man and his milieu. Synge's writings explore social, ... Read more

    $12.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In The Shadow Of The Glen

    by JM Synge ...
    In 1896 JM Synge met W. B. Yeats, who encouraged Synge to live for a while in the Aran Islands and then return to Dublin and devote himself to creative work. In 1897 Synge suffered his first attack of Hodgkin's disease, a form of untreatable cancer at the time, and also had an enlarged gland removed from his neck. In 1898, he spent his first summer on the Aran Islands and then continued for the ... Read more

    $0.67 USD

  • The Playboy Of The Western World

    by JM Synge ...
    In 1896 JM Synge met W. B. Yeats, who encouraged Synge to live for a while in the Aran Islands and then return to Dublin and devote himself to creative work. In 1897 Synge suffered his first attack of Hodgkin's disease, a form of untreatable cancer at the time, and also had an enlarged gland removed from his neck. In 1898, he spent his first summer on the Aran Islands and then continued for the ... Read more

    $2.39 USD

  • The Aran Islands

    by J.M. Synge ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran Islands, published in the same year, records his visits to the islands in 1898-1901, when he was gathering the folklore and anecdotes out of which he forged The Playboy and his other major dramas.Yet this book is much more than a stage in the evolution of Synge the dramatist. As Tim ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Riders To The Sea

    by JM Synge ...
    Riders to the Sea is a one-act tragedy by the Irish playwright John Millington Synge. It was first performed in Dublin in the very beginning of the twentieth century. The play portrays the simple life of rural Ireland, but also pictures the Irish peoples struggles with the furious sea which is presented as both a provider of food and a destroyer of life. The protagonist, Maurya, who has lost ... Read more

    $1.49 USD

  • The Tinker's Wedding

    "What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?"

    by J.M. Synge ...
    Edmund John Millington Synge was born on April 16th 1871 born in Newtown Villas, Rathfarnham, County Dublin on 16 April 1871 the youngest son of eight children. Synge was educated privately at schools in Dublin and Bray, and was later to study piano, flute, violin, music theory and counterpoint at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. After graduating, Synge, with plans to be a professional musician ... Read more

    $1.49 USD

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    Tinker's Wedding, The

    A Drama-Comedy in Two Acts

    by J.M. Synge ...
    Narrated by Brendan Moir ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - Brendan Moir's Playwright Corner

    Unabridged

    42 min

    Come join me in the hilarious romp that is The Tinker's Wedding by J.M. Synge, a story of two young tinkers trying to con a travelling holy man into marrying them, all while their mother is constantly trying to satiate her indomitable thirst for drink, thereby inadvertently causing more problems than the drink is worth. Blaming, miscommunication, and utter tomfoolery ensues, leading to the final ... Read more

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  • The Well Of The Saints

    by JM Synge ...
    Synge was educated privately at schools in Dublin and Bray, and was later to study piano, flute, violin, music theory and counterpoint at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. After graduating, Synge, with plans to be a professional musician went to Germany. He stayed at Coblenz during 1893 before moving to Würzburg in January 1894. He then abandoned music due to self doubt and a shyness in ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Plays of J.M. Synge, The

    by J.M. Synge ...
    Narrated by Brendan Moir ...
    Series Audiobook box set - Brendan Moir's Playwright Corner

    Unabridged

    6 hours 28 min

    The Complete Works of J.M. Synge.Riders to the Sea: A mother and her daughters are dealing with a familial curse that seems to cause all of the men in the family to die. Anxieties come to a peak when the last, remaining son is getting ready to ride out to sea in order to try and provide for his family.Shadow of the Glen: A contemplative Drama in One Act about how a women's integrity can be ... Read more

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    Riders to the Sea & Shadow of the Glen

    by J.M. Synge ...
    Narrated by Brendan Moir ...
    Series Audiobook 5 - Brendan Moir's Playwright Corner

    Unabridged

    50 min

    Riders to the Sea & Shadow of the Glen are both one act plays by J.M. Synge, an Irish playwright in the early 20th Century who made it his life's mission to accurately depict the people of the Irish Countryside.Riders to the Sea is a Tragedy in One Act about a mother and her daughters dealing with a familial curse that seems to cause all of the men in the family to die. Anxieties come to a peak ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Playboy of the Western World, The

    A Comedy in Three Acts

    by J.M. Synge ...
    Narrated by Brendan Moir ...
    Series Audiobook 11 - Brendan Moir's Playwright Corner

    Unabridged

    1 hour 46 min

    Come join me in reading the magnum opus of J.M. Synge, where a young traveler has come from out of town boasting that he's committed patricide, which, rather than ostracizing him, causes many women of the town to become morbidly curious about this young man, including the prettiest girl in town and the quite newly vivacious widow. But what happens when the supposedly dead father shows up in town ... Read more

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